Two Tankas
Sisyphus
A fly, a window —
an erratic, dogged climb
with nowhere to go
but back to the bottom — time
without reason, without rhyme.
To the Mosquito in My Bedroom
Move on — I don’t want
to kill you. Just go away.
Your thin whine will haunt
me to sleep tonight and play
into my dreams before day.
© Michael Fleming
Dummerston, Vermont
July 2022
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